Reports issued by H.R.W. and other human rights groups are professional analyses of different countries. It is absolutely irresponsible and unethical to respond to such criticism with personal attacks on individual professionals affiliated with these organizations.

Public outcry in the wake of Shahzad's death has had little effect on the ISI and the army, which continue to issue veiled threats to journalists. Little will change in this regard until the army and the ISI are held accountable for their actions.

In 2009, Asia Bibi, a 45-year old Christian woman, was asked to fetch water while working as a farmhand. Now, she has been in prison for a year and faces a death sentence under the damning blasphemy laws of Pakistan.